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Play Readings

This week Steve led a reading of Beaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore - a fascinating and beautifully constructed account of the life of Alan Turing. Next week we meet again for a reading of Dylan Thomas' classic radio play, Under Milk Wood, led by James who directed it for the Fringe in 2006 (photos […]

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Upcoming play readings

Tuesday Dec 5th - Hugh Whitemore Breaking the Code - Steve leading - re. Alan Turing Tuesday Dec 12th - Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood - James leading Venues to be announced

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Planning our next production

We have now completed the sequence of productions which were all originally conceived either during or shortly before the years of lockdown. Zigzag, Top Girls, The Plague, and now The Cherry Orchard, have all, in their delightfully contrasting ways, been tremendous successes. Each was a huge enterprise in its own right, dominating months of the […]

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Cherry Orchard rehearsals going well

Four complete runs before we open on the 26th, two of them full dress rehearsals. Plus the technical rehearsal when we try out the sound and lighting and polish all the scene changes etc. With everyone of the book for several weeks we are well ahead of the usual schedule and it is looking very […]

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Emerging from the pandemic years in good heart

We have emerged from the pandemic years with two successful live productions under our belt, first ZigZag - our own Simon Applegarth's celebration of the life of Gilbert White of Selborne. Taking the form of a voice drama, he wrote it originally for Whites' 300th anniversary in 2020, but after a series of delays due […]

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Goodbye '22 - Hello '23

So, 2022 is drawing to a close. It has seen two stage productions by the Fringe, one successful bring-your-own-item evening, and two play-reading evenings - Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and A Burial at Thebes - Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' Antigone. I suppose we should mention that getting this new website up and running has […]

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Upcoming Play-reading evening

Tues 13 Dec 7:30 The Burial at Thebes - Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' Antigone.Led by James - Room 7, Alton Community Centre

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The Plague rehearsals have started with cast read-throughs

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Bring-your own item evening

We have had a delightful bring-your-own-item evening when members brought their choices of poetry and prose to read, or even perform. This was a format which we invented for zoom during the lock-down years and this is the second such session we have done face to face since. As always the choice was eclectic and […]

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